"HAL" <nospam******.com> wrote in message
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> So, my Vista still goes nuts on hard-drive. I finally found that the
> defrag scheduled task tried to defrag my disk in a never-ending fashion.
> It seem to me that the defrag is badly tuned, thus a large drive with many
> files, and low disk space, will defrag forever.
>
> Microsoft say that the defrag should only start if the computer is "idle".
> But if you have a low screensaver timeout and the screensaver locks your
> computer, the defrag starts ASAP, making the horrible sound of hard-drive
> reading/writing in my living room. I just had to disable that "feature" of
> Vista now, removing defrag from schedule.
>
> Another thing, Defrag seem to use the switch defrag -i "-i" is an
> undocumented feature if you type defrag /? in console. What does it do?
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-i switch explanation here:

[url]http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/archive/2006/10/19/a-quick-note-about-defrag-exe-parameters.aspx[/url]

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